Airbnb rules in The Hague 2026: permit, 30 nights, notification and fines

Airbnb rules in The Hague let you rent out a whole home only if you live there yourself: you need a free registration number in every listing, a €131.20 holiday rental permit, and a notification to the city before every stay, with at most 30 nights per calendar year.¹² Each guest must have at least 12 m² of floor area, and the permit is personal.¹ For a co-host that makes The Hague a small, seasonal job, much like Amsterdam.

In this guide

1. Vakantieverhuur in The Hague: the number, the permit and the notification
2. The 30-night cap
3. Which homes qualify
4. B&B rules in The Hague
5. Tourist tax in The Hague 2026 and how you file it
6. Fines for holiday letting in The Hague
7. What this means for a co-host
8. Co-host checklist before you sign
9. Questions people ask
10. Sources

This page goes deeper than the The Hague section of the rules guide, which compares the city with Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Belgian regions.

Vakantieverhuur in The Hague: the number, the permit and the notification

The rules sit in the city’s housing ordinance, the Huisvestingsverordening Den Haag 2023 (housing ordinance), which builds on the national Huisvestingswet 2014.¹⁷ The city says the permit and registration rules have applied since 2 August 2021, and that homes are meant to be lived in, though tourist letting is allowed under conditions.³ Holiday letting (vakantieverhuur) of your own home while you are away needs three things.

• A registration number. The ordinance applies to every self-contained home in every neighbourhood of The Hague. You may not offer a home for tourist letting without its registration number in each offer.¹ The number is free, issued immediately after you apply, and has no end date.²
• A permit. It costs €131.20, paid when you apply and not refunded if refused. It is valid for three years, and you receive it within eight weeks if the application and the home meet the conditions.² You may advertise as soon as you have the number, but may only let once the permit is granted.³
• A notification before every stay. You report each letting and its number of nights in advance. In MijnDenHaag you open the permit and choose “verhuur melden”; you cancel a notified stay in the same place. Notifying and cancelling are free.²

The application uses DigiD. A tenant needs a signed consent statement from the owner, and someone applying on your behalf needs a signed power of attorney.²

Permit conditions

Article 5:19 of the ordinance attaches these conditions to every permit:¹

1. The applicant has a valid registration number for the address.
2. The applicant has their main residence at the address.
3. The applicant is the person who lets the home.
4. Lettings stay within the 30-night cap.
5. Every letting and its nights are notified in advance.
6. Only one tourist letting permit applies per home.
7. The letting causes no nuisance.
8. Each guest has at least 12 m² of usable floor area.
9. The host tells guests how rubbish is collected.
10. The permit is personal, tied to the address and cannot be transferred.

The permit lapses as soon as the holder no longer has their main residence in the home.¹ The city also publishes granted permits.²

The 30-night cap

A home may be let to tourists for at most 30 nights per calendar year, and letting without notifying each stay and its nights in advance is forbidden.¹ The notification must be made by the person who lets the home.¹ If you bought the home during the current calendar year, the nights the previous owner already used are deducted, and from 1 January you have 30 nights again.²

Unlike Amsterdam, which cut the night cap to 15 in eight neighbourhoods in 2026, we found no neighbourhood with a lower cap or a ban in The Hague’s ordinance on 2 November 2026.¹ The city’s pages name no maximum number of guests; the limit comes from the 12 m² per guest rule.¹²

Which homes qualify

The permit is only for one kind of home: a self-contained home (zelfstandige woning) that is the applicant’s main residence.¹² The ordinance refuses a permit when, among other reasons:¹

• Several households are registered at the address in the population register (BRP).
• A B&B permit has been granted for the home, or a pied-à-terre exemption is still running.
• Another permit for tourist letting already exists for the home.
• A permit was withdrawn from the same applicant for the same home earlier that calendar year.
• It harms the living environment to an unacceptable degree, or a Bibob integrity check is negative.

Rented homes and flats in a building with an owners’ association (VvE) often need the landlord’s or the VvE’s consent first; the city tells you to check that before applying.²

The pied-à-terre exemption

The Hague has a second route for a home the owner does not live in: letting it as a second home (pied-à-terre) to one tenant. It needs a separate exemption, also €131.20, valid for as long as the lease runs.⁴ The conditions are strict:¹⁴

• Nobody is registered at the address, and the tenant is not registered anywhere in The Hague.
• Only the tenant and their household may stay, each with at least 12 m².
• The home is worth more than 142 points in the national rent points system (WWS).
• No other form of tourist letting is allowed in the home.
• A new exemption is not granted within 12 months of a previous one.

The 30-night cap and the notification duty do not apply to a pied-à-terre.¹ It is a lease to one person, not a way to run a holiday listing.

B&B rules in The Hague

A B&B (bed and breakfast) is exempt from the permit and the 30-night cap, but has its own conditions.¹⁵

Sources for the table: the ordinance, articles 5:17 to 5:26, and the city’s permit and B&B pages.¹²⁵

The city adds practical limits: guests use the existing bathroom and toilet, you may not create new rooms with their own kitchen, shower and toilet, and you may serve breakfast only, with no meals or alcohol sales. The home must meet fire safety rules, and you pay tourist tax.⁵

Tourist tax in The Hague 2026 and how you file it

The Hague’s tourist tax is set per person per night:⁶

• €6.20 for hotels, holiday homes, B&Bs and other overnight stays in 2026, and €2.85 at a campsite or harbour.
• Only guests aged 13 or over count.
• Residents of The Hague pay none, but you record them with the city’s form “Verklaring Hagenaars toeristenbelasting”.
• You may pass it on to guests.

Airbnb withholds the tax on its bookings and pays it to the city.⁶ Airbnb’s own page lists €6.20 per person per night for short-term rentals and B&Bs in The Hague without mentioning the age limit, so check that children under 13 are not being charged.⁸

How you file

1. Register first. Anyone offering paid overnight stays for the first time reports in writing to Belastingzaken, the tax office, with the form for private hosts or the one for businesses.⁶
2. Yearly or quarterly. Private hosts who let their own home during the holidays file once a year, on a form the city sends at the end of the calendar year. Commercial providers get a form after every quarter.⁶
3. Pay with the return. Pay when you file, quoting the return number; a payment plan is not possible. If nothing is due, you still sign and return the form.⁶
4. Late or missing. No return, a late return or late payment leads to an additional assessment (naheffingsaanslag).⁶

The city’s page does not say how nights already taxed through Airbnb should appear on your yearly return, so ask Belastingzaken on 14070 before you file. Bookings from channels that do not collect the tax are yours to declare. How The Hague compares with other cities is in tourist tax in The Hague.

Fines for holiday letting in The Hague

Article 7:2 of the ordinance lets the mayor and aldermen impose administrative fines from the amounts in annex II.¹ The offences refer to articles 23a to 23c of the Huisvestingswet: 23a is the registration number, 23b the night cap and the notification, and 23c the permit.⁷

The short stay and pied-à-terre offences rise to €40,000 from the tenth time.¹ Three rules sit on top of the table:¹

• Business-like letting doubles the fine. The amount rises by 100% when the offence is committed in a business-like operation. The annex counts as business-like anyone who demonstrably lets several homes, and anyone professionally active in housing or property, naming estate agents, letting agencies and key-holding companies (sleutelbedrijven).
• Repeat offences cost more. Within four years of a final earlier fine, the ordinance allows further increases, up to 500% of the annex amount for a repeated permit offence other than B&B or pied-à-terre.
• The permit can be withdrawn if the conditions in article 5:19 are not met, and a new one is refused for the rest of that calendar year.

The city’s own page only says that letting outside the rules can bring a fine.³ Residents can report nuisance from tourist letting to the city as housing nuisance.³

Changes ahead

The current ordinance came into force on 1 July 2023 and lapses on 1 July 2027 under its own article 8:4.¹ We found no published successor on 2 November 2026, so check the rules again in the first half of 2027. A separate national plan to limit short stay contracts to 30 nights is covered in mid-term rentals.

What this means for a co-host

The ordinance is written around a resident who lets their own home for a few weeks a year.¹ That gives a co-host a narrow role:

• What you can do. Run the listing, guest messages, check-in, cleaning, pricing and the rubbish information for the nights the resident is away.
• What you cannot take over. The permit is personal, and the permit holder must be the person who lets the home.¹ The notification must be made by the person who lets the home, so in practice the resident notifies through their own MijnDenHaag account.¹²
• Your exposure. The annex treats letting agencies and key-holding companies as business-like, and business-like letting doubles the fine.¹ Our reading is that a co-host who publishes a listing without a number, or helps run an unpermitted home, could be fined at the business-like rate; get legal advice before you sign.
• The money. With 30 nights a year, the commission is small (see the example below). It works as an add-on for clients who travel, or next to units in other cities.

The figures are an illustration, not a forecast; use the revenue calculator for your own numbers.

Co-host checklist before you sign

1. Residence. Does the resident have their main residence at the address and appear in the BRP there, with no other household registered?¹
2. Permit. Does the resident hold a valid permit, issued when, and does it expire within the contract term?¹²
3. Number. Is the registration number in the listing on every channel?¹
4. Nights left. How many nights has the resident already notified this year, and were any used by a previous owner?²
5. Notifications. Who reminds the resident to notify each stay in MijnDenHaag before arrival, and how do you check it was done?²
6. Guests. Does the floor area allow the guest count in the listing at 12 m² each?¹
7. Building and lease. Does the landlord or VvE agree?²
8. Tax. Is the resident registered with Belastingzaken, and who files the yearly return for non-Airbnb bookings?⁶
9. In writing. Who pays a fine, and can you stop work if the rules are broken? See the compliance clause.

Questions people ask

Sources

All sources checked 2 November 2026.

1. Gemeente Den Haag, “Huisvestingsverordening Den Haag 2023”, Version in force from 1 April 2026, articles 5:16 to 5:26, 7:2 and fine annex II, in Dutch
2. Gemeente Den Haag, “Vergunning woningverhuur tijdens vakantie aanvragen”, Last updated 24 September 2026, in Dutch
3. Gemeente Den Haag, “Vergunning of ontheffing toeristische verhuur aanvragen”, Last updated 5 June 2026, in Dutch
4. Gemeente Den Haag, “Ontheffing verhuur 2e woning (pied-à-terre)”, Last updated 5 June 2026, in Dutch
5. Gemeente Den Haag, “Bed and breakfast (B&B) starten”, Last updated 24 September 2026, in Dutch
6. Gemeente Den Haag, “Toeristenbelasting”, Last updated 24 September 2026, in Dutch
7. Overheid.nl, “Huisvestingswet 2014”, Articles 23a to 23c, version in force from 1 July 2026, in Dutch
8. Airbnb Help Centre, “Occupancy tax collection and remittance by Airbnb in Netherlands”
9. Airbnb Help Centre, “Airbnb service fees”

We check every figure against the sources above. Spotted something out of date? Email systemen@hostproacademy.com with the guide title.